"Report to Your Majesty, we won, and we won a great victory! Daxu's army suffered little casualties, and it was impossible to defeat the enemy!" A general came over and clasped his fists and said excitedly, with a tremolo in his voice.

Guo Shao rode on the horse, looking at the sea of ​​blood, and somehow he couldn't be happy.

The wind in the air was very small, and the smoke from the guns made by the large number of artillery and the melee could not be dissipated for a long time. The entire hillside and valley were foggy. It was clearly sunny, but it seemed as if the sky and the earth were covered with haze.

The places you can see from sight are corpses. The two main battlefield cores are almost impossible to see. The corpses have been piled up and spread to all sides, and the fields are full of devastations. Weapons and broken flags are everywhere, and even the execution ground is not so tragic.

Guo Shao has fought many wars, but he has never enjoyed massacre and has never hated life. Pain and killing will only make him feel uncomfortable.

However, deep down, he felt that this was right. He persistently wanted to capture the sense of justice brought by the massacre... It was much better than defeat!

What Li Yueji said was remembered again: Why do you have to fight each other?

Guo Shao looked back at the battlefield where the smoke slowly surging, and said to his left and right, perhaps to himself: "You have all witnessed the harassment and massacres suffered in various parts of Hebei. If I don't kill them today, they will kill the soldiers and civilians of Daxu in the future!"

Li Chuyun bowed quietly and said, "As a martial artist, I am a good man to kill people on the battlefield. It is enough to not kill women and children."

Guo Shao glanced at him and said seriously: "The founding official's words are reasonable."

Wang Pu looked into the distance and could no longer see the scene of pursuit. He clasped his fists and said, "Dangxiang dispatched more than 100,000 people in this battle, and there is no other person to adjust. Take advantage of this opportunity to defeat him and eliminate his troops!"

After hearing this, Guo Shao accepted Wang Pu's suggestion and said, "The command was sent to Cao Bin's army to focus on the remaining cavalry in the south. The imperial infantry rode horses and took turns to pursue their infantry fleeing horses. The cavalry mainly focused on destroying the defeated Khitan cavalry."

"I obey the order!" Wang Pu said with relief. Somehow, the civil servant was worried that Guo Shao, as a martial artist, was ruthless, but Guo Shao did not disappoint them.

Guo Shao held back his unfavorable emotions, pondered for a moment, and said, "Don't let Shi Yanchao chase him, let Dong Zunhui lead the main force of the cavalry of the First Legion."

Sometimes wisdom does have nothing to do with age. Dong Zunhui is younger, but Guo Shao found that this guy was actually good at judging the situation during the Northern Expedition. He was also willing to give Dong Zunhui a chance to make contributions. This person is a relatively high-level general among young and strong generals.

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The imperial guards dismounted during combat, but after several expansions of war horses after Daxu's country, the number of imperial guards was not large this time. For mobility, a large number of horse-riding infantry were deployed.

Even if the infantry is given a horse, the horse fighting is not good. Guo Shao's first Northern Expedition after he took office was verified. However, it is quite good to pursue riots. If the defeated soldiers organize resistance, they will dismount and fight. Anyway, they will run around on foot and cannot run past the horse riders in a short period of time.

After receiving the order from the central army, Dong Zunhui, the main force stopped chasing. On the one hand, he sent a small group of troops to follow the retreating Liao army cavalry, and on the other hand, he sent people back to the military camp, first took some tents, food, and excess horses, and then followed.

After some delay, Dong Zunhui's troops followed him slowly, and changed horses and rode all the way to the evening, but they were getting farther and farther away from the defeated army.

... In the Liao cavalry brigade, Yang Gun was no longer sure where he went. The Liao army reinforcements included about 10,000 Khitan cavalry and 10,000 Xi infantry. At that time, the cavalry rushed on the battlefield in the north, and Yang Gun was on the western mountain. After the cavalry was defeated, they fled. Many people died in the battle formation, and some ran apart along the way. Now there are only a few thousand cavalry left in the Liao army, and there are also a large number of Dangxiang horse soldiers. Although the entire horse group is much better than when it was defeated, it is still in a mess.

At night, the war horses rushed and ran, carrying people and running all day, and the horses were constantly exhausted.

The cavalry were defeated and ran away from the battle formation, with nothing and food shortage; what was even more fatal was that there were no tents and other items... Everyone rushed in and rushed, and it was impossible to charge with tents! Even the excess horses could not be brought too many.

After a large number of people stopped one after another, they quickly shivered from the cold.

It was the first month of the year, and it was spring, but the early spring night in the northwest could still freeze to death! In less than half an hour, the Dangxiang cavalry had already escaped quietly.

Few Khitans ran away privately. They were from Liao. The only idea after the defeat was to go north to Liao. The long journey was to travel with a large group of people and horses was the best choice. The Dangxiang cavalry was mostly herders on the grasslands north of Xiazhou, and they didn't want to stay in Suizhou.

Everyone was trembling with cold, the wilderness was pitch black, and the mountains were deserted. If they had to cut trees, they had to use sabers and other weapons, because they did not have tools such as axes and hatchets. They could not meet the needs of the army at all.

It was difficult for Khitan generals to communicate with Dangxiang generals, so they could only find someone who could speak Chinese to translate.

The generals surrounded a fire that had finally risen, and were crowded with people. Everyone discussed it, and some people said, "Go forward to the road, and you will be able to go to Suizhou tomorrow to replenish supplies."

But the Khitan generals disagreed: "After this battle, the entire Pingxia land cannot stop Xu Jun. We are exhausted. Even if we arrive in Suizhou, how can we leave?"

Someone said, "After arriving in Suizhou, what if Xu Jun also comes, will we defend the city?"

General Dangxiang couldn't help but say, "You want to leave. Pingxia is over. Where will we go?"

After hearing this, everyone sighed and felt a hopeless atmosphere.

Some people even suggested taking a breath and asking Xu Jun to fight to the decisive battle because Xu Jun’s cavalry was not large. However, this method was quickly denied.

After discussing it, the group of people had no choice. Finally, the tribes set off one after another to continue walking, and the dark valley. Fortunately, they could determine the route by observing the Wuding River, otherwise they would have to get lost.

Many Khitan cavalry began to dismount and walk, and everyone led their horses to walk. Everyone knew that if the horses they rode were exhausted, no one would give them the horses, and they might stay in this broken place forever in the end!

It was so difficult to get people and horses. At this time, the Khitans found several thatched houses on the roadside and were about to send someone to get some supplies, but they saw some Dangxiang soldiers who had already taken the lead. They drove out some ragged women, children and elderly people, and were "kicking" to ask where the food was hidden, and even snatched the torn clothes, probably because they remembered the cold last night.

Suddenly, the soldiers stabbed an old man with a knife several times, then raised their saber and pointed it at a child, shouting loudly.

The Khitans watched silently, without asking whether the rioters passed by, and they were still concerned about whether they were their own people. Besides, the Dangxiang cavalry and the farming tribes here were not on the same route.

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